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By Martin Heidegger
Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" is likely one of the most crucial works written by way of this determine of 20th-century philosophy. the recent translation goals to make this paintings extra available together with provision of traditional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally.
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The oscillation of this wavering reaches out into the most extreme and sharpest counterpossibility of beings, into not-Being and Nothing. The search for the Why now transforms itself accordingly. It does not just try to provide a present-at-hand ground for explaining what is present at hand—instead, we are now searching Page 31 for a ground that is supposed to ground the dominance of beings as an overcoming of Nothing. The ground in question is now questioned as the ground of the decision for beings over against Nothing—more precisely, as the ground for the wavering of the beings that sustain us and unbind us, half in being, half not in being, which is also why we cannot wholly belong to any thing, not even to ourselves; yet Dasein is in each case mine.
The tide of the course is thus deliberately ambiguous. The fundamental question of the lecture course is of a different kind than the guiding question of metaphysics. Taking Being and Time as its point of departure, the lecture course asks about the "disclosedness of Being" (Being and Time, pp. 21 f. ). Disclosedness means: the openedness of what the oblivion of Being closes off and conceals. ] "Introduction to metaphysics" accordingly means: leading into the asking of the fundamental question.
It belongs to a higher order, and not just "logically," as it were, or in a table of the system of sciences. Philosophy stands in a completely different domain and rank of spiritual Dasein. Only poetry is of the same order as philosophical thinking, although thinking and poetry are not identical. Talking about Nothing remains forever an abomination and an absurdity for science. But aside from the philosopher, the poet can also talk about Nothing—and not because the procedure of poetry, in the opinion of everyday understanding, is less rigorous, but because, in comparison to all mere science, an essential superiority of the spirit holds sway in poetry (only genuine and great poetry is meant).